From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Stephen J. Pyne is emeritus professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University. He is the author of Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico (Arizona 2024), Pyrocene Park: A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park (Arizona, 2023), The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (California, 2021), and more.
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"On rare occasions, the historical literature is enriched by the introduction of a broad new field for study, by a book that dramatically expands the boundaries of scholarly investigation. Stephen Pyne’s Fire in America is such a book. It achieves the Promethean goal of bringing fire to history."
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List of IllustrationsForeword by William CrononPreface to the 1997 Paperback EditionPreface to the Original Edition: History with Fire in its eyeAbbreviationsPrologue: The Smoke of TImeNature's FireThe Fire from AsiaThe Fire from EuropeThe Great BarbecueThe Heroic AgeA Continental ExperimentThe Cold War on FireFields of FireEpilogue: The Forbidden FlameBibliographic AbbreviationsNotesBibliographic EssayIndex
